@Beachbum There were 206 of us. I moved the day after graduation and lost touch with everybody. I've recently gotten back in touch with a few people, but my closest friends from high school are either missing, dead, or graduated before me.

RE: newsie.social/@ProPublica/1169

Paxton is a typical representative of the supremacist two-tier voting right:

One for the alleged white "master race", and another one, less privileged, for the masters' inferior "servants & slaves".

Not what the United States declared independence for.

Time for Paxton to go to the nation's political dumpster. Good riddance!

What kind of AG would Todd Blanche be? Here’s a clue: he created Trump’s $1.8 billion political slush fund to allow Trump to pay off his pardoned street-fighting MAGA foot soldiers. He threw in a “family plan” total self-pardon for Trump, his sons and relatives and businesses against any and all criminal, civil and tax investigations and prosecutions. He should just continue to work as Trump’s lawyer.

In 11 years, we have never seen Trump visit children in a single hospital or school.

We've never seen him visit anyone in a veterans hospital or a cancer center.

We've never seen a single second of humanity from him ...

#Trump #TrumpAdministration

@Beachbum My 50th is next month. I'm not going. They're having a dinner on Friday night and something on Saturday. It's not worth the flight back to NY. Especially when I barely remember any of them.

Do not ever forget that none of our voting systems run on the Internet. They are on what we used to call an intranet, which is a closed loop that is specific to each individual voting location. There are always backup paper ballots because you know you put your paper ballot in the machine. The same tabulators were used in 2016 when Trump won, 2021 Trump lost and 2024 when Trump won. Fu— off all you conspiracy theorists and #sorelosers I am so sick of #TheBigLie #thebiglie #TheBigLieLivesOn

Now tRump's Defense Secretary Hegseth is pro gender affirming care? His new plan screens troops over 30 for low testosterone & offers replacement therapy to optimize them. But only for the military's idea of 'readiness,' not for trans Americans. Double standards.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

Je cherche une bonne âme qui pourrait accueillir un #chat abandonné vers #Nice ou #Antibes . C'est une femelle, elle est très affectueuse mais elle n'est pas en grande forme malheureusement (visiblement pas assez nourrie et a potentiellement des parasites) . Je paierai les frais de vétérinaire mais je ne peux malheureusement pas l'accueillir chez moi (trop de chats)
Le boost rend le poil soyeux.

@byteseu @deepmud You suppose they realize just how many Americans believe as they do?

Justice Amy Coney Barrett says she "didn't know how to explain to her child that she has to wear a bullet proof vest to work." As a parent myself, here's my suggestion of what to say:

"Mommy is one of the 9 most powerful judges in America, and at every chance to help protect meaningful gun safety legislation, I've chosen the extremely reckless and stupid decision of expanding gun access, even to violent sociopaths, thus putting your and my life in abject danger—but that's the price of freedom."

DOJ Is Now 0 for 13 As Deep Red West Virginia Wins To Block Trump's Election Rigging #Politicus twp.ai/E5E6T9

Adding fish to rice paddies fights a horrible parasitic disease.

In a schistosomiasis hotspot in Senegal, researchers stocked rice fields with two native species, African bonytongue and Nile tilapia, that eat or outcompete the freshwater snails carrying the parasite. Fields with both fish held fewer snails, and yields rose more than 25%, with the harvested fish offering a second stream of income.

The team now wants to scale it across endemic rice-growing regions.

news.stanford.edu/stories/2026

US News, trans good news (rarely happens here, which is why I’m sharing) 

“Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care”

npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-58885

@AlliFlowers because maybe he needed aid with more than his schedule?

Not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as everyone consents. 🤣

@Ulrich_the_elder Executive Order on Day 1 to defund ICE, make private immigration prisons illegal, and abolish DHS, breaking it back up into the individual departments from whence it was illegally spawned.

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